different between sickle vs plough

English

Etymology

From Middle English sikel (also assibilated in sichel), from Old English sicol, si?el, from Proto-Germanic *sikil? (“ploughshare”), of uncertain origin.Possibly a borrowing from Latin s?cula (“sickle”) or s?c?lis (“sickle”); itself from Proto-Albanian *tsik?, or, alternatively derived as a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *sek? (“ploughshare”), from Proto-Indo-European *seg-, a variant of Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”).

Cognate with West Frisian systel, sisel, sizel (“sickle”), Dutch sikkel (“sickle”), German Sichel (“sickle”). Related also to West Frisian sichte (“sickle”), Dutch zicht (“sickle”), German Low German Sichte, Sicht (“sickle”), German Sech (“the blade of a sickle or scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?kl?/
• Rhymes: -?k?l
• Hyphenation: sic?kle

Noun

sickle (plural sickles)

1. (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.
2. Any of the sickle-shaped middle feathers of the domestic cock.

Synonyms

• reap hook
• reaping hook

Coordinate terms

• scythe

Derived terms

• sickle cell
• hammer and sickle
• moonsickle

Translations

Further reading

• Sickle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

sickle (third-person singular simple present sickles, present participle sickling, simple past and past participle sickled)

1. (agriculture, transitive) To cut with a sickle.
2. (transitive) To deform (as with a red blood cell) into an abnormal crescent shape.
3. (intransitive) Of red blood cells: to assume an abnormal crescent shape.

Derived terms

• (transitive: to deform): sickler

Translations

Adjective

sickle (comparative more sickle, superlative most sickle)

1. Shaped like the blade of a sickle; crescent-shaped.

Derived terms

• sickle cell anaemia, sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia

Translations

Anagrams

• Celiks, Eslick, Ickles, Leicks, ickles

English

Alternative forms

• plow (American)

Etymology

From Middle English plouh, plow, plugh(e), plough(e), plouw, from Old English pl?h (“hide of land, ploughland”) and Old Norse plógr (“plough (the implement)”), both from Proto-Germanic *pl?gaz, *pl?guz (“plough”). Cognate with Scots pleuch, plou, West Frisian ploech, North Frisian plog, Dutch ploeg, Low German Ploog, German Pflug, Danish plov, Swedish and Norwegian plog, Icelandic plógur. Replaced Old English sulh (“plough, furrow”); see sullow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

1. A device pulled through the ground in order to break it open into furrows for planting.

   Synonyms: sull, (dialectal) zowl

   Hyponyms: ard, light plough, scratch plough, carruca, heavy plough, mouldboard plough, turnplough

2. The use of a plough; tillage.
   • 1919, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report (volume 8, page 47)

     If you get it early ploughed and it lies all winter possibly, you find it an advantage to give it a second plough; but it does not invariably follow that we plough twice for our green crop.

3. Alternative form of Plough (Synonym of Ursa Major)
4. Alternative form of ploughland, an alternative name for a carucate or hide.

   Synonym: carucate

   • c. 1350, Geoffrey Chaucer (attributed), The Tale of Gamelyn

     Johan, mine eldest son, shall have plowes five.

5. A joiner's plane for making grooves.
6. A bookbinder's implement for trimming or shaving off the edges of books.
7. (yoga) A yoga pose resembling a traditional plough, hal?sana.

Usage notes

The spelling plow is usual in the United States, but the spelling plough may be found in literary or historical contexts there.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plough (third-person singular simple present ploughs, present participle ploughing, simple past and past participle ploughed)

1. (transitive) To use a plough on to prepare for planting.

2. (intransitive) To use a plough.

3. To move with force.
4. To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in.

   Synonyms: chamfer, groove, rut
5. (nautical) To run through, as in sailing.
6. (bookbinding) To trim, or shave off the edges of, as a book or paper, with a plough.
7. (joinery) To cut a groove in, as in a plank, or the edge of a board; especially, a rectangular groove to receive the end of a shelf or tread, the edge of a panel, a tongue, etc.
8. (Britain, college slang, transitive) To fail (a student).

   Synonyms: flunk, pluck
9. (transitive, vulgar) To have sex with, penetrate.

   Synonyms: get up in, pound, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Middle English

Alternative forms

• ploug, plouh, plogh, plog, ploh, ploch
• plugh, pleugh, plue, pleu (northern)

Etymology

From Old English pl?h, from Proto-West Germanic *pl?g.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu?x/

Noun

plough (plural ploughs)

1. plow

Descendants

• English: plough
• Yola: pleough

References

• “pl?ugh, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.